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JOINT PROCEDURE ORDER ON ALARM CHAIN PULLING IN

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staff/station/Coach conductor, Coach attendants/Asst.

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sDCM se 
JOINT PROCEDURE ORDER ON ALARM CHAIN PULLING IN 
PASSENGER CARRYING TRAINS 
The incidents of unauthorized Alarm Chain Pulling are frequently reported in 
Secunderabad Division which not only lead to the loss of punctuality but also
cause much inconvenience to the Railway passengers. In order to prevent and 
effectively handle the ACP incidents, the following Joint Procedure Order is 
issued for strict compliance: 
1. Prevention ofACP; 
On board Railway Staff should identify the situations which may likely 
to cause ACP incidents such as non-working of AC, fans, 
non- 
avaialability of water medical emergency etc., and promptly convey to 
the Puntuality cell in advance for informing the same to the concerned 
Branch for taking remedial action in the next stoppage/Station where 
the facility for corrective action is available. 
1.1 
The Train Guard after collecting the information from on board Railway 
staff should submit a memo to the SMR/SS/SM at signing off stations 
regarding the sections which are prone for repeated ACP incidentS with 
1.2 
reason. 
2. ACP at Stations: 
The Station, Master on duty should at once react by ordering his 
available station staff to set right the disc of affected coach to minimize 
detention to traffic. All Railway staff on board namely Ticket Checking 
staff, Coach Conductor, Coach attendants, Asst. Loco Pilot and Guard 
must ensure, setting right of disc with minimum possible time. If the 
train is.escorted by RPF staff or RPF staff is available on platform duty, 
they should at once proceed to find out the reason behind the chain 
pulling and if the ACP is without valid reason, they should apprehended 
the culprit/culprits and prosecute him/them under relevant section of 
the Railway Act. 
2.1 
In 
case there 
is 
no 
RPF staff available, 
staff/station/Coach conductor, Coach attendants/Asst. Loco Pilot/Guard 
should make all out efforts to apprehend the culprit/culprits and hand 
over to RPF for prosecution. If it is not practically possible to catch the 
culprits, they should immediately inform the Divisional Security Control 
Room about the incident with details such as station, train number, 
the ticket checking 
2.2 
coach number, time, reason etc. 
3. ACP in Block Section: 
ph 
In case of ACP in block section, all the Ticket Checking Staff, Coach 
Conductor, Coach attendants, ALP and RPF staff if available and Guard 
of the train should immediately respond by reaching the affected coach 
to set right the disc at the earliest and to ascertain the cause of ACP. 
the.ACP 
is without valid reason, they should apprehend the

Culprit/culprits and RPF should take custody for prosecution. Guard 
should take note of the information 
in 
his journal/report and 
communicate 
to station and control through Walkie-Talkie/Text 
message etc. RPF should alsinform details to RPF control. 
3.2 
If no RPF staff is available on board in a train in which there is an ACP 
without valid reason and catching the culprit/culprits may resultin
any Law and Order situation, Guard should immediately inform the 
Divisional Security Control Room by any means. In case the train staff 
apprehend the culprit, they should communicate the same to the RPF 
control. The information should be conveyed by Divisional Security 
Control Room to next RPF Unit en-route for taking over the culprits for 
prosecution. 
3.3 
After the incident of ACP, the Conductors, TTEs, Coach attendants, and 
ALPs will assist the Guard-in-charge by informing the place of 
OcCurrence, coach number and other relevant details. The complied 
information should be conveyed by Guard to Operating Control which 
will be shared to Security Control for follow-up action. 
Sr.DCM/SC 
Sr. DOM/sC 
Sr.DSC(Cbord/RPF/sC

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